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Railway History

  • South African Railways – The Years of Transition from Steam
  • Restoring Kitchen Car 269: the Curious Tale of the Designer
  • Mostertshoek - One of South Africa's worst rail accidents
  • Pretoria Railway Station depicted on early Picture Postcards
  • The Mainline Railway Termini of London
  • Dr. Beeching, Hero or Villain?
  • Railway Archaeology in the Great Karoo: Dwyka - Antjieskraal - Ketting
  • The Railway that put the World on Track
  • Remembering, not forgetting: A visit to Sandstone Estates
  • One of the earliest and most important items of South African Railway History goes on sale
  • A short sharp history of the Marikana Railway Station, est. 1910
  • History of the SAR&H Magazine from 1905 to 1930
  • The railway line between Wolwehoek and Heilbron
  • Johannesburg as seen through the eyes of a young schoolboy in the late 1940s, early 1950s and later as a young married man in the early 1960s
  • The Free State's Forgotten Railway Line
  • The South African who gave the world the deep level underground railway
  • Brunel's Big Idea and the South African Connection
  • The Blaauwkrantz Bridge Disaster
  • Old Park Station - A heritage site of exceptional significance comes alive again!
  • Rapid Rail Revamp in South Africa

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From our Archive

  • The conservation of The Victoria & Alfred Waterfront as an historic precinct
  • Languedoc, the workers’ village built by Cecil Rhodes
  • Solving the riddle of the site of all the late 1938 to early 1940s burials in the Brixton Cemetery
  • Stonework Restoration - Standard Bank Chambers
  • Railways from War's End to Union (1902-1910)
  • Historic sculptures at St Andrew’s School for Girls restored
  • Postmortem Photography in South Africa
  • Refurbishing the Muizenberg Carnegie Library and Post Office
  • The Krugersdorp Fire Station - A 1930s Art Deco Landmark
  • Vandalised headstones in Brixton Cemetery
  • Finding Antonetta Elizabeth Cosslett: a personal exploration of a family mystery
  • Snapshot Photography - Automobiles photographed in South Africa from the 1920s to 1960s
  • Principles and Parallels in South African Water and Heritage Protections - Custodianship, the Constitution, and the Limits of Ownership
  • The “loving gesture” has proved to be wholly destructive...
  • The contested but pivotal legacy of missionary education in South Africa

From the Directory

  • Totem Media
  • Shaw Badenhorst - Researcher
  • Estelle Liebenberg-Barkhuizen - Paper Conservator
  • Melville Residents Association (MRA)
  • Observatory Civic Association (OCA)
  • Sticky Situations
  • Vernon Systems
  • Collectors Treasury
  • Western Cape Museum Educator Group
  • Friends of the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG)
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